On March - 18 - 2011
The emotional meaning of form, shape and music” is a book and a furniture collection by designer and illustrator from Stockholm, Sweden, Tomas Ekström who works under the alias Kallbrand. His examination of emotional design began with the question “How do you design happiness? With Emoticons Ekström tries to exhume and explain the “emotional valence of the fundamental elements and principles that establish the media of form, shape and music. The possessions that make up each media are systematically and thoroughly examined and different ways of operating them so as to decisively communicate a specific emotional message.